Wayne Muller Quotes - Page 2

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• Every day, we are given countless opportunities to offer our gifts to those at work, in our families, our relationships.... If you give less than what you are, you dishonor the gift of your own precious life.

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  Opportunity, Giving, Our Relationship

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• Even when our intentions are noble and our efforts sincere, even when we dedicate our lives to the service of others, the corrosive pressure of frantic over-activity can nonetheless cause suffering in ourselves and others. A "successful" life can become a violent enterprise.

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  Successful, Effort, Suffering

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• Like a path through the forest, Sabbath creates a marker for ourselves so, if we are lost, we can find our way back to our center.

  Wayne Muller

  Way, Path, Forests

  Wayne Muller (2013). “Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives”, p.6, Bantam

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• A kind life...is fundamentally a life of courage.

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  Kind, Life Is

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• Emptiness is the pregnant void out of which all creation springs. But many of us fear emptiness. We prefer to remain...surrounded by things...we imagine are subject to our control.

  Wayne Muller

  Spring, Void, Emptiness

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• If busyness can become a kind of violence, we do not have to stretch our perception very far to see that Sabbath time – effortless, nourishing rest – can invite a healing of this violence. When we consecrate a time to listen to the still, small voices, we remember the root of inner wisdom that makes work fruitful. We remember from where we are most deeply nourished, and see more clearly the shape and texture of the people and things before us.

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  Healing, Voice, Roots

  Wayne Muller (2013). “Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives”, p.5, Bantam

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• Gratitude invites a sense of sufficiency.

  Wayne Muller

  Gratitude, Sufficiency, Invites

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• In the soil of the quick fix is the seed of a new problem, because our quiet wisdom is unavailable.

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  Soil, Quiet, Problem

  Wayne Muller (2013). “Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives”, p.4, Bantam

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• The last place we tend to look for healing is within ourselves.

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  Healing, Looks, Lasts

  Wayne Muller (1993). “Legacy of the Heart: The Spiritual Advantage of a Painful Childhood”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• When we do what we love, again and again, our life comes to hold the fragrance of that thing.

  Wayne Muller

  Fragrance, Ritual, Again And Again

  Wayne Muller (2013). “How Then, Shall We Live?: Four Simple Questions That Reveal the Beauty and Meaning of Our Lives”, p.87, Bantam

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• All life requires a rhythm of rest. . .
  There is a rhythm in the way day dissolves into night, and night into morning. There is a rhythm as the active growth of spring and summer is quieted by the necessary dormancy of fall and winter. There is a tidal rhythm, a deep, eternal conversation between the land and the great sea.

  Wayne Muller

  Summer, Morning, Spring

  Wayne Muller (2013). “Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives”, p.12, Bantam

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• Just because we are working hard does not mean we are making anything happen.

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  Mean, Doe, Happens

  Wayne Muller (2013). “Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives”, p.187, Bantam

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• With every breath, the possibility of a new aspect of self arises.

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  Self, Possibility, Arise

  Wayne Muller (2013). “How Then, Shall We Live?: Four Simple Questions That Reveal the Beauty and Meaning of Our Lives”, p.20, Bantam

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• Because we do not rest, we lose our way.

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  Way, Loses

  Wayne Muller (2013). “Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives”, p.12, Bantam

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• What we choose to love is very important for what we love leads our eyes, ears, and hearts on a pilgrimage that shapes the texture of our lives.

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  Heart, Eye, Love Is

  Wayne Muller (2013). “How Then, Shall We Live?: Four Simple Questions That Reveal the Beauty and Meaning of Our Lives”, p.90, Bantam

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• What we love and what captures our curiosity draws us forward into some place of great destiny.

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  Destiny, Curiosity, Capture

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• True kindness is rooted in a deep sense of abundance, out of which flows a sense that even as I give, it is being given back to me.

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  Kindness, Giving, Flow

  Wayne Muller (2013). “How Then, Shall We Live?: Four Simple Questions That Reveal the Beauty and Meaning of Our Lives”, p.306, Bantam

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• Can it then be that what we call the 'self' is fluid and elastic? It evolves, strikes a different balance with every new breath.

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  Self, Balance, Different

  Wayne Muller (2013). “How Then, Shall We Live?: Four Simple Questions That Reveal the Beauty and Meaning of Our Lives”, p.20, Bantam

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• The more spacious and larger our fundamental nature, the more bearable the pains in living.

  Wayne Muller

  Pain, Fundamentals, Bearable

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• Effortlessness is the ability to slow down and listen for the spaces between the joints... Deep within all things there is a natural rhythm, a music of opening and closing, expansion and contraction.

  Wayne Muller

  Space, Joints, Expansion

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